I am reminded of the movie, The Mission, in which the Jesuit priests have to decide between obeying an unjust order and abandoning their own flock to death and slavery. Hell must smile when spiritual fathers abandon their flocks, and the poor little ones in the pew feel abandoned and ...
Father Allan Figueroa Deck, a Jesuit priest in charge of the Hispanic ministry of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange, announced Wednesday that he will leave to return to teaching at a Jesuit school in Berkeley. “I’ve been in Orange County nine years and I’ve liked it a lot, but I...
Msgr. Daniel Brennan, judicial vicar at the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange, added that special church laws governing marriage stipulate that no clergy but the priests of the couple’s parish may perform a marriage for Roman Catholics unless the bishop approves. “The Roman Catholic Church seeks...
The bishop, a tall, thin, angular man, said he was surprised to find that certain areas of his new diocese which includes all of Orange County were not so different from his old one. Steinbock said he “was not aware of the poverty that was found in pockets of Orange County,” or of...